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The soundtrack received positive reviews following its release from music critics who praised its dystopian mood and Lorde's curation. It was included on several year-end lists. "Yellow Flicker Beat" was released as the lead single on September 29, 2014, and received generally positive reviews.
Filmtracks.com commented that Howard's music for The Hunger Games series started with lament in the first instalment, drama in the second and expanded to full action in the third instalment, with the score for Mockingjay – Part 2 "meanders between all three in this entry". [8]
It was released on 17 November 2014 as the opening track for the soundtrack album of the motion picture The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1. "Meltdown" uses the instrumentation of "Merci", taken from Stromae's second studio album Racine carrée (2013), which was produced by the lead artist, Thomas Azier and Aron Ottingnon.
"The Hanging Tree" was composed by members of the indie folk band the Lumineers (pictured). [1]"The Hanging Tree" was written by Suzanne Collins and originally appeared in her novel Mockingjay (2010); Jeremiah Fraites and Wesley Schultz from American indie folk band the Lumineers composed the track while production was handled by James Newton Howard.
"Yellow Flicker Beat" received mostly positive reviews from music critics.Writing for Spin, Carley praised the song's metaphorical and mature lyrics. [7] Rolling Stone writer Ryan Reed praised the track's production, writing that it "fits comfortably within the 17-year-old's sonic wheelhouse", [5] while Billboard editor Steven J. Horowitz opined that Lorde's vocals complemented the song's ...
The soundtrack debuted at number 1 on the Billboard 200 with 175,000 copies sold on its first week. It sold 100K digital copies the next week, making it the highest one-week total for a theatrically released movie soundtrack in digital history. [9] It has been certified as Gold by the RIAA since April 27, 2012. [10]
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (soundtrack) The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (score) The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (soundtrack) The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 (score) The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 (soundtrack) The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 (soundtrack)
The Hunger Games (Original Motion Picture Score) is the score album to the 2012 film The Hunger Games.The score was initially intended to be composed by Danny Elfman in his collaboration with T Bone Burnett, however, James Newton Howard replaced Elfman as the composer.